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Valued Member
United States
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I'm heading up to NYC soon, and I was wondering if you guys know any of the big coin stores that you could recommend I go to. I'm definitely heading to Stack's Bowers, but I also want to go someplace where I can actually afford the coins.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Stacks has affordable stuff too, I bought a few common Morgans off them when I was there a few years back.
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Valued Member
 United States
88 Posts |
Thanks. I'll check out those, and of course their gold ATM machine too.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Unless things have changed in the past half year or so, Stacks did not have much of a retail operation. The associate said that the staff was trying to being it back, but in Nov all they had were a few high end pieces on display. Recommend calling first.
Over all, found it pretty dismal environment in total... I had picked several dealers out of the phone book and found all of them had closed.
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Valued Member
United States
88 Posts |
I looked up a bunch of coin dealers online, so no problems with them being closed permanently, but I have had trouble finding dealers that weren't closed on the weekends.
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Valued Member
United States
374 Posts |
If you find any place good, please post about it. I might be in NYC in a few weeks. Drove by stacks in the spring, but it was closed that day. I agree that they have mostly high end stuff (at least on their website).
With the possibility of internet sales worldwide from any location, a brink and mortar shop's rent in NYC may not make financial sense, unfortunately, unless it only selling high end stuff.
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Valued Member
United States
88 Posts |
Brigandi's Coins and Collectibles is good, but it isn't open on the weekends.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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This might be a lame post, but didn't MACYS have a coin and stamp department? I know that years ago they did, but not sure anymore. I bought a proof set there sometime mid last century. Sorry for the trip down memory lame.
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United States
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LOL @ed......I remember that.... Fifth Floor Broadway Luggage (d.097) • Camera Shop (d.096) • Stamp and Coin Shop • TV Centre (d.223,271) • Air Conditioning Centre • Custom Sound Centre (d.293) • Radios (d.123) • Music Centre (d.083) • Leisure World (d.038) • Ski Shop • Hunting World • Boy Scout Centre • Travel Service http://departmentstoremuseum.blogsp...ew-york.html |
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Valued Member
United States
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They had a boys scout's section in Macy's? Also, sorry edweather, I think Macy's closed the Coin and Stamp department down a few decades ago.  |
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Pakistan
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There is this: http://www.pauljbosco.com/I had pretty bad luck finding actual physical shops that sold coins in New York. When I visited, one shop was closing down because the owner had passed away, another had stopped keeping coins, and a third was a glorified gold seller. That Bosco was one of the few I found. |
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United States
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Thanks Babar. I'll check that store out when I go.
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